Long commands on multiple lines

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Ok. So, to avoid my shell use termcap, I can recompile bash with correct options (the option to use terminfo instead of termcap).
In this way, it should not be necessary to edit my termcap file because my new bash will watch my terminfo file, isn't it?


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De: "Marc Lehmann" <schmorp at schmorp.de>
À: "spam spam spam spam" <spam.spam.spam.spam at free.fr>
Cc: rxvt-unicode at lists.schmorp.de
Envoyé: Mardi 7 Août 2012 05:07:46
Objet: Re: Long commands on multiple lines

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:21:20PM +0200, spam.spam.spam.spam at free.fr wrote:
> Now I am wondering why "less" and "man" applications use my terminfo entry whereas the "rxvt-unicode" application use the old termcap file to display correctly the long commands...

rxvt-unicode doesn't use terminfo, nor termcap. your shell (e.g.
bash) uses termcap, because whoever provided it (i.e. your gnu/linux
distribution) linked it against the obsolete termcap libraries.

it simply shouldn't do so and use terminfo, like anything else. or the
distro should properly update the termcap file.

this is a recurring issue with at least fedora. debian gnu/linux doesn't have
this issue for example.

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